FACTS which contradict what is taught in the universities and which even run counter to the assumptions made by critics of misandry.

Friday, January 25, 2013

Early Men’s Rights Writings by C. M. Castellazzo – 1927

FULL
TEXT: Alameda county’s “alimony martyr,” Emil R. Whittenberg, is willing to go
to work and pay alimony in order to get out of jail, but he was still a cell
inmate today, his fourteenth day of imprisonment. No longer is he a militant
striker openly, whatever his private convictions on alimony, he now craves the
freedom of the wide open spaces.

But
Wittenberg’s freedom largely depends upon the consent of his wife to
arrangements by which he may get out of jail and work for her support. Her
attitude today remained constant, if he will pay, he may go free, but no pay,
no freedom.

Conference
between Public Defender Willard Shea and Attorney Clarence De Lancey, counsel
for Mrs. Wittenberg, is being held today over Wittenberg’s plea.

Even
the moral support of Sam W. Reid, famous alimony-martyr of Glenn county, California,
failed to hold Wittenberg against the craving for freedom.

~
ANOTHER SYMPATHIZER. ~

Wittenberg’s
plight has attracted another sympathizer, C. M. Castellazzo, box 1533 Redwood
road, Castellazzo wants to enlist the men in a general campaign against the "women’s clubs.” “It will take manhood to put it over,” he wrote Wittenberg.

Castellazzo’s
letter says in part:

I read with interest
that, you are forming an Anti-Alimony club. I understand that the club will urge special
legislation for alimony payers. Let me inform you that it will take move than
mere urging to put it over.

You have the combined forces of women’s clubs
against you. You note that the women’s clubs which claim to have high ideals
and an eagerness for righteousness are not helping you in your predicament. It
will take manhood to put it over. It requires initiative by taking what is
right, not mere urging.

I
, too, am forming a club. It will stand for more than Anti-Alimony. The club
will stand for Anti-Alimony, Anti-Prohibition, Anti-Hypocrisy, and a few other
important items which I do not care to discuss by letter.

All
men worthy of the name men, who are not mentally degenerate, such as those who
figure that the women are always right – are eligible to the club. Since you
state that you are without funds, I am enclosing a 2-cent stamp, should you
wish to make a reply. Wishing you the best of luck, I am,

Very truly yours,C.
M. CASTELLAZZO...

~
POOR MEN, SAYS THIS WRITER ~

Signing
himself “Another Alimony Dodger,” still another supporter came to Wittenberg’s
camp today. He said:

“Dear
Sir:

“It
is with interest I read of your case, and I heartily sympathize with your case.
America is today run by women. When a man is so foolish as to marry one of
them, he is done for, so long as she cares to hang on to him.

“About the only relief that the man has is that some
other bonehead will come along and take friend wife off his hands. Every man of
experience knows that most wives will not give up one meal ticket until she has
the next in sight.

“I am wondering if there isn’t a better way out of
your difficulties than the one you have chosen. Isn’t it possible for you to
pay tip and leave California? It seems a shame that you should have to waste
your time and lose your freedom over such a trifling matter.

“You are at least lucky in being divorced. Some of
us have not been so fortunate. I personally spent about four hours in jail, and
three weeks later, when I got things
inshape, I took a 2000-mile trip for my health. I found my health so
much better that I have never gone hack.

“You will only afford your alimony-grabber
satisfaction by remaining in jail when you might be working to your own
advantage if you were free and out of California.

“More power to you! I hope you never pay, but that,
you will work out some scheme to beat the alimony graft.

“American men are today the laughing stock of the
rest of the world, and of their more intelligent fellow Americans – and they
deserve to be.

“Never in the history of the human race have men
fallen into such a preposterous situation as that of most American husbands.
The humor of the situation lies in the fact unil they have built the net in
which they are now floundering. One by one they have passed stupid and asinine
laws till today a man has as much right to say what shall be done with his
properly, his children, or even his person, as a jack ass.

“Well, I must close. Here’s a handshake for you and
all the fellow alimony dodgers. Perhaps in time other slaves will gee the light
and stand out against this asinine and tyrannous graft. Until that time it will
be each of us for himself and the devil take the hindmost.”